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#METRO LAST LIGHT BENCHMARK GTX 960 1080P#
The 128-bit bus on the GTX 960 may weaken its performance at higher resolutions, but at 1080p it’s the smallest and quietest solution available. Power consumption is dramatically better for Nvidia vs AMD. When it comes to overall technology leadership, however, Nvidia is clearly winning past its rival. The two cards have equivalent amounts of VRAM, and both have their own specific feature sets meant to appeal to end users. The R9 285 is generally matched against the GTX 960, even leading it in several tests. From a pure price/performance ratio, AMD and Nvidia remain closely tied. There are multiple ways to consider these results. The GTX 960 leads on technology, AMD continues to compete on price It draws more than 30% less energy per frame of Metro Last Light rendered. Yes, it's based on older architecture, but it stands toe-to-toe with the GTX 960 on performance, and. The GTX 960, however, remains in a class of its own. Ultra 1080p, Tessellation Normal, 2XSSAA, Advanced PhysX Off FPS. These features tend to stress memory bandwidth and computation horsepower, so if the GTX 960 can’t handle a hefty load these are the settings that will show it - even at just 1080p.Here, we see that the GTX 760 and Radeon R9 285 are essentially on the same level - the AMD card might draw more power than Nvidia’s old midrange offering, but it also offered significantly better performance. Metro: Last Light Redux: A Steam-based test of the Metro: Last Light Redux game. We tweaked both slightly - our Ultra test used antialiasing and we enabled 16x anisotropic filtering, while our “Extreme” test added high depth of field, SSAO, and vegetation alpha. It’s fairly demanding on modern cards, particularly at the highest detail levels. We tested Rome II in with both the “Ultra” preset and the “Extreme” preset. Total War: Rome II is the sequel to the earlier Total War: Rome title.
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Even though priced low, Gigabyte didnt compromise on OC potential, noise, temperatures, and power consumption as all of those are comparable to more expensive custom-design variants. The stock-clocked version of the card shows similar characteristics. Gigabytes GTX 960 OC retails at an affordable 199, all while offering the same performance out of the box as the bigger G1 Gaming. XFX AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB - XFX AMD Radeon RMB - MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB - Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB - AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB - eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB - NVIDIA. Instead, it’s the R9 285 that actually loses more performance, dropping from essentially tied with the Asus Strix GTX 960 to just slightly slower. One would expect the GTX 960, with its 128-bit memory bus, to choke and die when SSAA is enabled.
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Interestingly enough, we see performance trend in the opposite direction than expected in Metro Last Light. There was no way to configure all three cards to use the same type of antialiasing the specific method is auto-detected by the game engine. The GTX 960 uses traditional MSAA, the GTX 760 uses 8x CSAA/4x MSAA, and the Radeon R9 285 uses 8x EQAA, 4x MSAA. Video Card: Alpha chassis with NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5. Support: 1 Year Alienware Limited Hardware Warranty.
#METRO LAST LIGHT BENCHMARK GTX 960 WINDOWS 8.1#
The game supports both Mantle and Direct3D, and includes a built-in benchmark (run from the Steam command line via the “-benchmark LateGameView” command.) We tested the game at High Quality with 4x MSAA enabled, though the application identifies and applies three different types of MSAA depending on the GPU. Processor: Intel Core i5-4590T Quad-Core processor (6M Cache, up to 3.0GHz) Operating System: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, English, Exclusive Alienware Alpha Console Interface. Civilization: Beyond EarthĬivilization: Beyond Earth is the latest world-building game from Firaxis and a sequel to the popular Civilization V. We confined our testing to 1080p at the moment - the question of whether or not 4K is possible on midrange card is an interesting one, but a question for another time. AMD GPUs were tested using D3D and Mantle, where appropriate, and in some cases we evaluated multiple detail levels to test whether or not the smaller 128-bit pipe on the GTX 960 would prove a liability.